Rand Paul: Youth with me on NSA issue

Sen. Rand Paul isn’t standing down from his controversial stance that the NSA has gone too far and infringed the rights of the American people, and he knows he has back up.

“There was a poll out just this week that said well over 60 percent of Republicans think the NSA has gone too far, that they think your private phone calls and your records, you should have to have a warrant,” the Kentucky Republican told CNN on Tuesday. “I think as we have a fuller debate on these discussions you’re going to find that not only Republicans are with me on this issue, the youth are.”

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“They see him now as a hypocrite who’s unwilling to defend the privacy of the internet,” Paul said. “I think issues like this resonate beyond the Republican label and I think they’re going to help us become a bigger national party and Republicans will find out that I will and I do say that we do everything we can to protect our country, consistent with our constitution. That’s what we’re defending.”